Thursday, January 30, 2014

Week4 Blog1

This semester, I will be contributing to the Freeseer open source project, as part of the UCOSP program. This will be the start of the weekly blog reports.

Progress made this week:
  • I kept getting plugin error messages from the terminal, and realized that I needed to install additional libraries httplib, simplejson, and oauth. After installation, the plugin errors disappeared, but for some reason the talk editor can't be opened correctly using "python -m freeseer talk". Also, the displayed fields in the recording UI are not correct
  • After getting help on the IRC, I installed Linux Ubuntu on VMware workstation8, then re-installed the Freeseer dependencies on that virtual machine
  • The talk editor worked fine on Linux, but the recording UI was still not working well. So I opened issues #453 and #454
  • I decided on the issue that I would like to work on, and started writing the project proposal
  • I looked at some of the codes to get a sense of where I would be changing things.
Plans for next week:
Problems/blocks:
  • I'm not sure where I should start coding. I only have the general idea that the feature should probably be added somewhere in the /frontend/record files. I think looking at the code in more detail would be helpful in understanding how the whole thing fits together
  • #440 mentions that Freeseer stores metadata about when the presentation starts/ends, but I haven't been able to find the ending time



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